AusTraits

Eucalyptus decorticans

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Family Myrtaceae

Taxonomy: Eucalyptus decorticans (F.M.Bailey) Maiden

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Eucalyptus siderophloia f. decorticans F.M.Bailey (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (17), CPBR_2002 (8), Clarke_2015 (3), Gallagher_2015 (1), Ilic_2000 (3), Kew_2019_1 (3), Kew_2019_6 (3), Nicolle_2006 (3), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Stephens_2024 (17), Vlasveld_2018 (15), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (10). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 43 traits from 93 records in 15 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fire response
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): white_cream (1) [sources: Stephens_2024]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 6.75 mm (4-9 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Stephens_2024]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 5.5 mm (4-7 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Stephens_2024]
  • fruit_type (categorical): capsule (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2) [sources: Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Sjostrom_2006; Wright_2000]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 723.31 mm2 (577.75-870.4 mm2) [sources: Vlasveld_2018]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 102.5 mm (50-170 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; CPBR_2002; Stephens_2024]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 14.17 mm (5-30 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; CPBR_2002; Stephens_2024]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 140.74 mg (108.4-172.35 mg) [sources: Vlasveld_2018]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 1.6 cm (1.2-2 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 194.17 g/m2 (187.62-198.01 g/m2) [sources: Vlasveld_2018]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_lanceolate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; CPBR_2002; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnynnnyynnn (1) [sources: Stephens_2024]
  • storage_organ (categorical): lignotuber (1) [sources: Nicolle_2006]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1); epicormic_buds (2) [sources: Clarke_2015; Nicolle_2006]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 2.79 mg (0.82-6.09 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 1.5 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: CPBR_2002]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.98 mg/mm3 (0.94-1.03 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 40 m (40-40 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; CPBR_2002]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231217Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Stephens_2024917R. E. Stephens, H. Sauquet, B. Laugier, C. Gosper, and R. V. Gallagher. “Eucalypt flower size and colour shaped more by pollination than abiotic environment”. in review (2024).
Vlasveld_2018515C. Vlasveld, B. O'Leary, F. Udovicic, and M. Burd. “Leaf heteroblasty in eucalypts: biogeographic evidence of ecological function”. Australian Journal of Botany 66.3 (2018), pp. 191-201. doi: 10.1071/bt17134.
Wright_20001010I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.
CPBR_200258Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research. EUCLID 2.0: Eucalypts of Australia. 2002. url: http://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/intro/index.html.
Sjostrom_200644A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Clarke_201533P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
Ilic_200013J. Ilic, D. Boland, M. McDonald, D. G, and P. Blakemore. Woody density phase 1 - State of knowledge. National Carbon Accounting System. Technical Report 18. Tech. rep. Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra, Australia, 2000.
Kew_2019_113Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kew_2019_613Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Nicolle_200633D. Nicolle. “A classification and census of regenerative strategies in the eucalypts (Angophora, Corymbia and Eucalyptus - Myrtaceae), with special reference to the obligate seeders”. Australian Journal of Botany 54.4 (2006), pp. 391-407. doi: 10.1071/bt05061.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Gallagher_201511R. Gallagher and R. Lanfear. “Unpublished data: Trait campaign with the Royal Botanical Gardens & Macquarie University”. 2015.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.